asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik old reddit derp can't buy 35 grams of woman.
asciilifeform: i suppose could add a small '4' , a handful of industries ( pcb electroplating shops ) but that's about it.
asciilifeform: i know of 3 types who want -- 1) crowned heads, largely from inertia 2) gypos, of various nations 3) idjits who 'i'ma usgproof me savings with magic metal'
asciilifeform: a kg occupies ~same space as 'standard' chocolate bar.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: evidently d00d thought 'gold! movable, liquid, easily testable, 0 tx fee!' 'or hm mebbe not...' moment
asciilifeform was just having a 'spot the gold' exercise in machineroom with pet
asciilifeform: ook it wiht me to Russia - Vladivostok, where I was informed even by the Sperbank branch, that they had no precious metals assayist, for all they knew it could be fake, and thus they too refused to buy it. Luckily for me, I had a private backup for funds, but - it could have been dicey. '
asciilifeform: from orlolcommentz: ' Much to my surprise, it doesn't translate internationally as easily as one might think. I have a - very - little gold. When I wanted to sell some here in Ecuador early this year, I discovered that in fact there is no-one in Ecuador who buys gold. Moreover, there is also no-one who would take it back to the Perth Mint [Australia] from whence it came. DHL and Fed-Ex only move papers!! There are no couriers. !! I t
asciilifeform: and fwiw at this point mel is mostly dead.
asciilifeform: fwiw when asciilifeform reversed winblowz crapware all day , every day, with timebudget of approx 2days per item, he muchly preferred to encounter vs-built crapola, vs hand-.
asciilifeform: and various other 'cheats' of mass-reduction.
asciilifeform: notrly. even handasm item tends to use lotsa macroasm.
asciilifeform: ( do i gotta explain why, or is it obvious )
asciilifeform: i simply dun fully buy into the 'gnarly source is exactly same level of retardation as straight microshitization'. it isn't quite same thing.
asciilifeform: no one afaik yet tried mips, or itanic, or yet moar obscure.
asciilifeform: but will note that, e.g., trb, builds cleanly on e.g. arm ( and iirc ppc also )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking strictly of items known to actually work. ( at one time trinque posted a list of what built, and what did not, on his g5 ppc. iirc . trinque ? )☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque has buncha various built for ppc.
asciilifeform: today -- lynx , still ( of last try ) .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: firefox ( at least few yrs ago ) -- built.
asciilifeform: 'open' contemplated above is the very basic 1990s sense, where 'can i take source, and build for my mips r4000' etc.
asciilifeform: but just as easily separated from all of it with well-placed kick
asciilifeform: evidently 'riyadh prince' in fact turned out to be the item presupposed in the linked orlol : merely a version of american office plankton but with 5 or 6 additional zeroes after the decimal point
asciilifeform: ~nobody actually walks around believing , literally, in 'thousand year reich'. most of the believers, on examination, believe in roughly a 30 yr reich
asciilifeform: ( if thrown hard enuff -- for potentially rather long time )
asciilifeform: well-thrown brick can fly in the face of gravity for a while.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the least outrageous formulation iirc was something like 'big ape can stay irrational for longer than smart apes can stay solvent' or how it went.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not really sure. iirc i only had it in 1 place, (not yet introduced in tutorial) , where the 'add' has an incarnation that accepts a single WBool to add instead of a whole fz
asciilifeform: i picked the variant where there are 3 variants of each shifter ( not counting the secret-shift , made per apeloyee's method )
asciilifeform: 'O' stood for 'outputoverflow'. which in turn was exactly same as FZ_Shift_Left_I , which permitted only ~input~ of overflow; which in turn was otherwise identical to FZ_ShiftLeft, which permitted neither.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: it went like this, (OF_in : in WBool; N : in FZ; ShiftedN : out FZ; Count : in WBit_Index; Overflow : out Word)
asciilifeform: and the savings of text 'kilogrammage' -- not worth it.
asciilifeform: i've begun to suspect that overloadism is unhealthy, fundamentally.
asciilifeform: i've been thinking about abolishing function overloading in ffa. ( there is apparently even a pragma for cementing it )
asciilifeform: b........{finitely many bits of whatever value}......
asciilifeform: a........{finitely many bits of whatever value}......
asciilifeform: take two registers, let's write each from eldest bit to youngest:
asciilifeform: apeloyee: let's work the whole thing here
asciilifeform: ( declared warmism permanently cemented orlov into this company , as typical clitler voter, the other major warmist demographic, tends not to read collapse bl0gz )
